Budapest museums · Art
Art · since 1976
Kassák Museum
Lajos Kassák Museum
original name: Kassák Múzeum
The Hungarian avant-garde was largely made by one man, and that man is gathered here. Neither the National Gallery nor the Ludwig shows him whole: they hang single works, while here the whole labour lies together, journals and typography included. The museum is small and asks for preparation: without some idea of the European avant-garde of the 1920s half of what hangs will stay paper on a wall. A reader who knows Russian constructivism and the LEF group will find the ground familiar — Kassák read them and argued with them.
Minimum route
45–75 minutes
Founded
1976
Ticket
from HUF 1,200
Today
10:00–17:00
What to see
Kassák’s journals, A Tett and MA, in issues he set and laid out himself. Paintings and collages by his own hand, from the activism of the 1920s to the late constructions. Letters and papers about his collisions with authority, first the Horthy regime and then the communist one.
Minimum route — 45–75 minutes for the essentials
25 minutes with the journals and the typography. 20 minutes with the paintings and collages. 15 minutes with the papers and letters.
Reference
About the museum
Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) was a poet, a painter, a compositor and a publisher: he ran the journals A Tett from 1915 and MA from 1916, through which the Hungarian avant-garde spoke to the European one. The museum has worked since 1976 in the Zichy palace in Óbuda and belongs to the Petőfi Literary Museum.
Getting in
How to get there
The HÉV railway to Szentlélek tér, then through the courtyard of the Zichy palace. The museum is on the first floor.
Opening timeschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
closed for the day
| Mon, Tue | closed |
| Wed–Sun today | 10:00–17:00 |
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Ticketschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Full ticket 1,200 forints, reduced 600. Family tickets from 1,700.
from HUF 1,200
When to go
Any day from Wednesday to Sunday, we would say: little in Budapest is quieter than this museum.
Contacts
Nearby
- Kiscelli Museum 1.4 km from here
- Aquincum 2.5 km from here
- Museum of Fine Arts 3.6 km from here
If this moved you
In the same city
If after Kassák’s journals you want his painting beside his contemporaries, single works hang in the National Gallery, where he is one among many.
Abroad
If Kassák’s journals leave you asking whom he argued with, his interlocutors hang on Krymsky Val: Malevich, Rodchenko and the LEF circle.
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